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Family desperate to recover lost items
Jocelyne Lavoie-Konyk and her daughter, Nadine Konyk, on Mondaydisplay a bag similar to the one Jocelyne lost containing some priceless itemsincluding pictures of her late husband, a firefighter who died of a rare form of cancer last year. (TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store
By Gabrielle Giroday
She came across the country to mark the first anniversary of her husband's death.
But Jocelyne Lavoie-Konyk and her daughter Nadine Konyk now need help from Winnipeggers to find priceless lost items that honour the late firefighter.
After Lavoie-Konyk arrived in the city last Friday, a bag holding a memorial scrapbook dedicated to her husband David Konyk fell out a car trunk and onto the road.
The bag also held a journal Lavoie-Konyk is keeping to help her with her grief, as well as a battery charger for a hand prosthesis she has.
She had had carefully toiled over the memorial book, which has one-of a-kind photos and badges, to show her daughter.
"I'm still grieving... it was an unexpected death when my husband passed away," said Lavoie-Konyk, 67, who moved to Quebec with her husband in 2004 and created the book to chronicle her husband's accomplishments. "It was like a life story."
David Konyk, who is buried at a memorial honouring firefighters in Brookside Cemetery, died of a rare form of cancer 12 days shy of his 65th birthday.
The pair had been married for more than 40 years.
Lavoie-Konyk came back to the city and planned to be here with family until the end of the month, past what would have been her husband's birthday.
"I'm just putting my faith in the goodness of people," said Nadine Konyk, 35, who said the family has looked in garbage cans in the area to look for the missing items.
It's believed the items went missing somewhere between Richardson International Airport and Ferry Road and Ellice Avenue, after a trunk-release button was accidentally hit.
The family said they think the bag went missing at about 5:30 p.m.
The bag is made of green plastic and has a unique design on its background of a New York City scene, including a yellow cab.
The bag also contained shoes and jewelry. Anyone with information on the bag's whereabouts can call police at 986-3061.
"Please, be kind, or have a heart," said Lavoie-Konyk. "To me, it's worth a lot, because I'm still grieving... it just meant the world to me and my kids."
Gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca
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